Yuletide 2009 Fandoms with White / Western / Other Source Creators

[dhobikikutti]

Note: In my personal hierarchy of diversity, it is more important to support chromatic creators, and sources made by the people they represent. In addition, many White and Western sources come with deeply problematic racial and cultural depictions of their characters, and yet they end up being more popular and disseminated than more authentic representations.
That said, many of us love sources that are problematic for a variety of reasons, and as fans, one of the wonderful things we can do is produce fic that critiques, challenges and complicates the flaws in the source.
So if you do decide to write for these (and seriously, do it in addition to rather than instead of writing for the first list), please make sure you hunt for critique of the source, and write something that does not add to the problems of misrepresentation.

List of Chromatic Characters in White/Western/Other Created Yuletide 2009 Fandoms

PLEASE USE THIS FORM TO ADD INFORMATION TO THIS LIST (Made by the wonderful thuviaptarth)
Links to posts that comment on the source's racial and cultural representations are especially needed. We'll be editing this post continually to keep up with new information as we get it, so corrections, explanations, and counter-opinions to any commentary about the source is most welcome.

Comments

[dhobikikutti]

We really need to start a third list with characters that are presented as non-white/chromatic, even though they are not part of actual existing racial and cultural identities.

[lesserstorm.livejournal.com]

If so then you might add Tanya Huff's The Fires's Stone. Chandra and Darvish (2 of the 3 protagonists) and the countries where the action is set are all distinctly "non-European" and I'd say South-Asian influenced, but definitely secondary world created cultures rather than an actual country or region in disguise. The most prominant feature of the world building is the magic system / religion and I can't spot any real world belief system behind it, although there may be something I'm not aware of.

(Not using your form right now as I'm not sure how far the fandom qualifies. I'm afraid I'm also unable to point to any meta as I've neve seen any for the book.)